Mad Mammoth
Am I the only person to see the irony in this, a nuke sub by that name running aground, which literally means that it tried to bury itself into somewhere it shouldn't go?
And ditto Pikamax, someone sure WILL be demoted, or there is something wrong with the system.
I frankly don't believe a word of the official "Cover Story".
Uncharted mountains or not, a 688-class nuclear attack boat running at high-speed in "any" ocean has redundant systems to avoid collisions ... whether the "unexpected" obstacles be "new" undersea mountains, half-submerged ice bergs (weighted with large rock masses), large whales, or suddenly appearly enemy submarines.
Methinks the skipper will be quietly re-assigned to make it appear he's being "reprimanded" for an "alleged" mistake, while he and the "conn shift" will probably go to their graves knowing the "real truth" ...
Meanwhile ... undoubtedly at least two other fast-attack boats plus TAGOS "undersea surveillance ships" are now headed at high speed to the "collision area" to gather secret data for the U.S. Navy Top Brass.
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